A simple speculaas cake recipe inspired by Sinterklaas, a Dutch holiday which is celebrated on the 5th of December. This is a yummy and moist cake with speculaas flavour. The ‘speculaas’ spices are a mixture of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, cloves, white pepper, ginger, cardamom and aniseed. You can find the recipe for speculaas spices here.
Ingredients
- 200 gram brown sugar
- 200 gram butter (room temperature)
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 gram flour
- Pinch of salt
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 teaspoon speculaas spices
Instructions
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
Cream butter and sugar together in a stand mixer (or hand mixer) for about 5 minutes
Add the eggs, one at the time. Mix well before the next egg goes in
Add the vanilla extract
In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt and speculaas spices
Add the flour mixture to the sugar/butter mixture and mix well until combined. Don't over mix!
Pour the cake batter in a cake tin and bake for about 50 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out dry and clean. If not, bake for another 5-10 minutes.
Let the cake cool down in the tin for about 10 minutes before taking it out to cool completely on a wire rack.
